Katie Couric Talks About 'Going There'

The Book Review

The New York Times

Books, Arts

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🗓️ 29 October 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Couric discusses her memoir, and John McWhorter discusses his new book, “Woke Racism.”

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0:00.0	How much does Katie Kirk reveal about the world of television news in her new memoir?
0:14.0	She'll join us to talk about her new book going there.
0:18.8	Is our understanding of how to combat racism in this country fundamentally flawed?
0:24.4	John McWhorter will be here to discuss his new book, Woke Racism.
0:30.0	Alexandra Altair will be here to talk about what's going on in the publishing world.
0:34.4	Plus, our critics will join us to talk about the books they've been reading and reviewing.
0:39.5	This is the Book Review Podcast from the New York Times.
0:42.7	It's October 29th.
0:44.1	I'm Pamela Paul.
0:49.3	Katie Kirk joins us now.
0:51.0	Her new memoir is called Going There.
0:53.4	Katie, thanks for being here.
0:55.0	Nice to be here, Pamela.
0:56.6	I'm going to start actually with that title going there.
0:59.5	Obviously, it has like a double entendre, maybe a triple entendre.
1:02.3	But what did you mean by that?
1:03.6	Why did you choose it for the title of this book?
1:06.0	Well, I think you're right.
1:07.6	It might have a quadruple entendre at this point.
1:10.6	Who knows?
1:11.6	But I really wanted to talk about my first of all, sort of my journey, which I hate that
1:18.5	word because I feel like it's so overused at this point.
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